Help Me Understand...

[Benton]

(03-14-2016, 04:49 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: 1.) I had read somewhere that we shouldn't look for help at WR coming in FA.  I thought it was one of the beat guys, but can't remember.
2.) Fair enough, but if they deemed that the best approach then why did they offere Marvin Jones a contract in the first place?

Either they feel like they need a veteran Wide receiver or they don't.  Offering someone 8 mil a year, to be your 2nd receivers, SCREAMS to me "we need another weapon here."

1. Could be, but you never know what's going to happen. Especially with the Bengals. Things that seem obvious sometimes aren't and things that seem like they would never happen, happen. If you would've told me two weeks ago we would've signed Iloka and let Nelson walked, I'd have called you crazy.
2. If you have a guy who has performed when called on, you play him over a guy who hasn't had that chance. Or at least that's how this team normally operates. Unless we've got Julio Jones sitting on the bench behind Rex Burkhead, you're going to see the guy we know start. Marvin was the guy we knew. Doesn't mean there's no talent behind it, just that we haven't seen it.

I think with Marvin it wasn't so much having a solid #2 receiver, it was his being the backup #1. He wasn't just a one dimensional guy, he could get plugged on whatever route.